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Email: baccaro@ufam.edu.br

Graduated in Business Administration (Bachelor in 1998) and Biological Sciences (Bachelor in 2004) from the State University of Londrina and Ph.D. in Ecology from the National Institute of Amazonian Research (2013).

He is currently a professor of zoology at the Federal University of Amazonas, and an accredited professor at the Postgraduate Programs in Zoology at UFAM, and Ecology and Entomology at INPA. He is a reviewer of national and international scientific journals and serves as area editor of the journal Acta Amazônica and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. His line of research seeks to understand the diversity, evolution and dynamics of tropical rainforest ecological assemblages using a mixture of observation, field experimentation and modeling with different organisms.

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thaise.emilio@gmail.com

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Twitter: @ThaiseEmilio

Thaise Emilio is a Researcher at the Plant Biology Department at the University of Campinas and collaborator faculty at UNICAMP’s Ecology Graduate Program.

She has an undergraduate degree from the University of São Carlos, an MSc and a PhD from National Institute for Amazonian Research. She has also conducted postdoctoral research as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She studies patterns of plant diversity and abundance variation in tropical ecosystems. Her approach combines ecological, morphological, physiological, and comparative methods to understand the role of plant functional traits on plant distribution and ecosystem dynamics. She is particularly interested in how trait variation contributes to plant community assembly and how to use this information to understand, preserve, restore, and predict vegetation patterns across space and time. She has worked extensively in the Brazilian Amazon and more recently is expanding her research to other Brazilian ecosystems, including the Cerrado, Atlantic Forest and Caatinga. At PELD-IAFA, she conducts floristic inventories of palms, describes and quantifies plant functional characteristics, and participates in monitoring the growth, recruitment and survival of trees and palms to understand the performance of different species in space and time.

itanna.fernandes@gmail.com

Itanna Fernandes is a substitute professor at the Federal University of Amazonas – UFAM (Department of Biology), a PNPD postdoctoral research at the National Institute for Amazonian Research - INPA (Coordination in Biodiversity) and a collaborator faculty at the Postgraduate Program in Entomology at INPA, and also help with the curatorship of the INPA Formicidae.

She has a degree from the Federal University of Rondônia – UNIR, a MSc and a PhD from the National Institute for Amazonian Research. She is the coordinator of three ongoing projects funded by FAPEAM (Isolated, but winged: dynamics of ant dispersion in the Anavilhanas Archipelago), (Shaping the future: use of augmented reality in museum attractions) and CAPES (Organization of INPA's Insecta types collection). She won the Global Biodiversity Information Facility – GBIF World Young Researchers award in 2017. Itanna's research lines are integrative taxonomy, systematics and ant evolution (Formicidae), also working in species conservation areas such as ad hoc of ICMBio (Red List). At the PELD-IAFA, Itanna is responsible for ant classification, including their taxonomy and systematics.

Graduated in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Maranhão (2015). Master in Biological Sciences from the National Institute for Research in the Amazon (2017).

Doctoral Student in Biological Sciences - Ecology at the National Institute for Research in the Amazon (2019). She works in the areas of Education and Ecology of ant communities related to forest fragmentation and land conversion.

Bachelor and Degree in Biological Sciences from the University of São Paulo (2002), with a Masters in Ecology from the National Institute of Amazonian Research - INPA (2006) and a Ph.D. in Botany in the laboratory of plant systematics from the Biosciences Institute of USP (2011). His research trajectory involved the areas of plant ecophysiology (CI), plant ecology (Masters), morphology and phylogenetic systematics, and evolutionary biology applied to the field of botany (Doctorate and Postdoc).

He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of ABC in São Bernardo do Campo (SP) teaching subjects such as botany, systematics, evolution, reproductive biology, among others.

Associate Professor at the Department of Biology at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) and collaborating researcher on the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (PDBFF) of the Amazon Research Institute (INPA).

She is currently a professor at the Postgraduate Program in Zoology (UFAM) and the Postgraduate Program in Ecology (INPA). She has experience in the field of ecology, with an emphasis on landscape ecology, population ecology and bird conservation, with a special interest in the ecological consequences of landscape changes from human activities, and the effects of deforestation and habitat fragmentation.

He holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the São Paulo State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1985), a Masters in Freshwater Biology and Inland Fisheries from the National Institute of Amazon Research (1990) and a Ph.D. in Ecology from the State University of Campinas (1999) ).

He is currently Senior Researcher III at the National Institute for Amazonian Research. He has several articles published in national and international journals. He has experience in the fields of Ecology and Taxonomy of Freshwater Fish, working mainly on the following topics: Amazon, fish, ecology, ichthyofauna and communities.

Graduated in Agronomic Engineering from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRRJ, Master and Doctor in Entomology from the National Institute of Amazonian Research - INPA.

I was a postdoctoral fellow PNPD/CAPES, of the Institutional Capacity Building Program - PCI-DA/INPA/CNPq, and of the Support Program for the Fixation of Doctors in Amazonas - FAPEAM. I worked as a visiting professor at the Institute of Exact Sciences and Technology - ICET, in the Postgraduate Program in Science and Technology for Amazon Resources (PPGCTRA) at the Federal University of Amazonas - UFAM in Itacoatiara. I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Institutional Training Program - PCI-DA/CNPq at the Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica INMA. I work mainly on the following topics: Community ecology, Biodiversity monitoring and conservation, Spatial and temporal repetition analysis, Use of taxon substitutes for species and Use of bio-design to generate products and patents, with an emphasis on ants.